The association between disease and profitability in individual finishing boars at a test station

Livestock Science

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 101-108

  Jensen, Tina Birk ^a   Baadsgaard, Niels Peter ^b   Houe, Hans ^a   Toft, Nils ^b   Østergaard, Søren ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Danish Meat Association   (Denmark)

^c DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Boar test station; Growing finishing period; Pathological findings; Profitability; Treatments

Indexed keywords

SUIDAE;

EID: 47849130062     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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